| (photo credit: Eric Welles-Nystrom)
This Friday sees the release of Luaka Bop’s forthcoming reissue of Preacherman’s (aka Tim Jones) music, Universal Philosophy: Preacherman plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits. After sharing “Feel It,” Luaka Bop is pleased to share another cut from the release, titled “Out Of This World.”
Stream Preacherman’s “Out Of This World” —
https://soundcloud.com/luakabop/preacherman-out-of-this-world/
In 1979, under the name T.J. Hustler, Jones self-released one extremely rare LP, Age Of Individualism. In the years since, he’s released two even rarer CD’s as Preacherman, of which the tracks on this forthcoming reissue are taken.
Throughout the 1980’s, Jones was a technician for IBM in both Las Vegas and San Jose. At night he world perform in the Las Vegas lounges. Thoroughly fascinated by technology and also an engineer in his own right, Jones adapted a Hammond B3 organ to play a Moog synth with some of the organ’s keys (some still played the organ) and also adapted the organ’s foot controlled bass levers to play two Moog synth bass pedals (a failed item Moog made for a few years). Thinking he wasn’t much of a live performer, he had a custom wooden puppet made named T.J. Hustler. Together, Tim Jones/Preacherman and T.J. Hustler would perform long philosophical soliloquies.
These days, Jones is CEO and founder of Up Productions and lives with his 103 year-old mother in Oakland, CA. With his Casio CTK-7200 keyboard, equipped with five wireless mics, a P.A., Jones performs karaoke, easily matching whatever song request you might have.
Perhaps even more so than his first album, Universal Philosophy grants listeners access, virtually for the very first time, to Jones’ outlook, his purpose, and the way he lives and experiences life on this planet. The music presented here is otherworldly, homespun, folk art funk; concise and stream-of-consciousness simultaneously.
Watch/Listen/Share:
“Feel It” stream – https://youtu.be/35waZLUTbU0
Universal Philosophy Teaser Video – https://youtu.be/S4xHRkwlWUY
Pre-order Universal Philosophy: Preacherman Plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits —
https://luakabop.lnk.to/Preacherman
Download album art & hi-res images of Preacherman —
http://pitchperfectpr.com/preacherman/ |
